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So yeah, I’m well outside of the range of the annular eclipse, still taking place as I type this I believe, and my friend in Kansas thought he was too. But at least he was watching carefully at sunset when he got the right conditions. No filters needed when it’s this low on [...] May 20th, 2012 | Tags: annular eclipse 2012, James L. Kramer, Kansas, solar eclipse | Category: Astronomy, Frustrations, Nature, Photography, Too Cool |
 Leave a commentOkay, first off, I apologize to those whose attention span will not be able to handle a 45 minute video – I know, this is the internet, the TL;DR Channel, where three minutes is a chore. Chill out, get a Pepsi or some tea, and stay on the same page for a bit (it’ll [...] May 18th, 2012 | Tags: Kevin Burke, launch camera, Matt Melis, Mobile Launcher Platform, NASA, Pad 39-A, slidewire escape, Space Shuttle Orbiter | Category: Astronomy, Photography, Too Cool |
Leave a commentThere are actually two themes I’m continuing here. The first is the limits of our knowledge, which is a “half-empty” perspective; there’s a better way of expressing it, which we’ll get to in a moment. The second theme being continued here is special efforts made by scientists to communicate their work to the general [...] April 29th, 2012 | Tags: CERN, Daniel Whiteson, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, particle physics, PhD Comics | Category: Continued from other blogs, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
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Source: Hubblesite.org On this date 22 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was borne into space on Shuttle Discovery, the one that recently did its last flyby over DC (well, okay, it had help) before delivery to the Udvar-Hazy center. The Hubble will be retired soon, and while this is viewed with some [...] April 24th, 2012 | Tags: Cats Eye nebula, dark energy, exoplanets, Hubble Space Telescope, planet formation, Ultra Deep Field | Category: Astronomy, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentSince I have yet to obtain any images illustrating this (and because there may not even be examples of such within this country, I may not ever, sniff,) I refer you to Alex Wild of Myrmecos fame, guest-blogging on Scientific American’s site, for his post on “The fly that banks on arachnophobia.” If you [...] February 26th, 2012 | Tags: arachnophobia, camouflage, fruit fly, jumping spider, Rhagoletis | Category: Continued from other blogs, Nature, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentCourtesy of NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day, I present one of the most interesting examples of unintuitive physics: the curvature of spacetime to produce a gravitational lens. The ring that you see here is not the shock wave from a supernova affecting the surrounding gases, as I first thought, but actually a blue [...] December 21st, 2011 | Tags: general relativity, gravitational lensing, Hubble Space Telescope, LRG 3-757 | Category: Astronomy, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentAs I indicated in the previous post, we had a trip planned that might produce some new images, and while I’d like to build the suspense to the point of frustration, I find this a hard thing to do, especially when I lead the post off with a header photo. So yes, we did [...] October 27th, 2011 | Tags: Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Argus Pheasant, Argusianus argus, Bucorvus abyssinicus, Danphe, Dark-winged Trumpeter, endangered species, Goura victoria, Grus antigone, Himalayan Monal Pheasant, Impeyan Monal, Lophophorus impejanus, Mike Lubbock, Psophia viridis, Sarus Crane, Scotland Neck, Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Victoria Crowned Pigeons | Category: Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI know it’s short notice, but I just found out about it myself, courtesy of The Manatee. If you get Discovery Channel, there is a new show premiering tonight right after Mythbusters, going by the pseudonym of Penn & Teller Tell A Lie, and it sounds like it should be pretty cool. I’ll be [...] I actually get chills when watching the following video – it’s just too cool seeing this all come together: I’ve known this video for a couple of years now, and there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with it; at least with the tour that culminated from it. That, however, was only the lead-in [...] August 28th, 2011 | Tags: nobody chundered, nobody gets eaten either, Walking With Dinosaurs | Category: Humor, Random, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI’ve related this in part elsewhere on the site, but I thought it deserved its own post, especially since it was one of the more memorable experiences from a few years ago. When I lived in Florida, I started “maintaining” a small saltwater aquarium to house photo subjects and interesting marine critters. Being close [...] August 17th, 2011 | Tags: Alpheus heterochaelis, Bigclaw Snapping Shrimp, Clibanarius vittatus, grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, Pistol shrimp, snapping shrimp, sonoluminescence, Thinstripe Hermit Crab | Category: Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
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